From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 21:05:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 138B816A4CE for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:05:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp803.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.12.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C7A1443F93 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2003 21:05:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@dlfws.net) Received: from adsl-63-205-132-96.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (HELO dlfws.net) (the?freak@sbcglobal.net@63.205.132.96 with plain) by smtp1.bt.mail.vip.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 4 Nov 2003 05:05:10 -0000 Message-ID: <3FA73382.9060506@dlfws.net> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 21:05:06 -0800 From: lists User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20031011 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Maltese References: <3FA5F42F.4090009@pcmedx.com> <3FA601DB.6050007@dlfws.net> <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com> In-Reply-To: <3FA605DB.1080100@pcmedx.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual booting WinXP and FreeBSD - odd problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 05:05:13 -0000 Mike Maltese wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> Do you have WinXP and FreeBSD on the same disc or on two separate discs? >> >> Thanatos >> >> > > Same physical disk. Windoze is on ad0s1 and FBSD is on ad0s2. At the > moment I'm looking into restoring XP's MBR and then utilizing it's > boot manager by copying the FreeBSD boot blocks. I know this can be > done with Linux, we'll see about FreeBSD. =) I can't believe this > isn't working, I've had great success in the past with dual-booting. > The mainboard is a Shuttle AK12 and I just flashed the BIOS to the > latest version. It's not the newest board, so I'm wondering if I'm > running into the 1024 cylinder limit thing. > > Help me out here guys, I'm trying to make a convert out of my friend! > > Thanks, Mike > > > Howdy, Shot in the dark ( well, kinda ). Did you set the FreeBSD partition to be bootable when you created it ( the S option in the FDISKPartition Editor )? What does your partition scheme look like? ( More specific that ad0s1 & ad0s1 ) ( hmm, maybe I'll put some more useless parens in here () () () ) Thanatos Thanatos